MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET
"I've never seen anyone attempt to use the Unmaking on something this abstract. But if the rule is genuinely false, if it was only ever fear pretending to be necessity, I think your gift might be exactly what's needed to prove that difference, one way or the other."
I focused on the working, the thing we’d built between two worlds that only knew each other through fear. I grabbed hold of the rule Wren pointed out this can’t be paused, can’t be left, or it all falls apart and pushed against it, searching for the truth underneath.
It gave way almost immediately.
It wasn’t a lie, not like Halstead’s order or Aldric’s. It was something softer, sadder just old fear, passed down for three hundred